ὕδη
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See also: Ὕδη
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ud-, the same root of αὐδή (audḗ, “voice”), Sanskrit वदति (vadati, “to say, speak”) and Proto-Slavic *vaditi (“to argue; scold”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈy.ði/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.ði/
Noun
[edit]ὕδη • (húdē)
- Theognostus' gives the definition as: φήμη (phḗmē, “prophetic voice, oracle”), ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song, ode”).
References
[edit]- “ὕδη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN